Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It A slow walk for example, does little to make anyone smarter. The idea that young children need to move a lot is fairly intuitive to anyone who has ever spent time in the company of a child under age eight. Gina Dresang, fifth grade teacher.

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 105

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Fifty-five percent who started in 2015 were gone by the following year, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to U.S. or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report.

Dropout 98

Dropout Report Policies Data 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A recent New York Times investigation found that many companies receive such precise, extensive data on their users that they—and anyone else they share this information with—could easily identify a single individual and pinpoint their location. Since the project began in 2015, the privacy team has evaluated nearly 300 education apps.

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Tools Policies Data Android 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. At the end of the following year, it awarded organizations in Portland and Sanford nearly $9 million to implement their plans. That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

That’s one reason schools have avoided using the word dyslexia, according to Fran Bowman, a former special education teacher who now runs an educational services company that works with school districts to train teachers. Avoiding the word was such a problem in schools across the country that in 2015 the U.S. ” she said.

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Training Report Groups System 78

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Known as online program managers, these companies have been hired largely to connect universities with customers who want graduate degrees. Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies.

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Company Education Industry Course 57

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Shelton, who had served in the Department of Education during the Obama administration, began meeting with the pair in 2015 after he had joined the online graduate education company, 2U. Even so, the couple’s first forays into education drew decidedly mixed results: An early $100 million investment in Newark, N.J.,

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Advocacy Groups Technology Meeting 113

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Dropout 108

Dropout Laptops Study Report 108

MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. The boy’s father, it turns out, is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Some have publicly proclaimed the steps they will take to create anti-racist schools , including diversifying classroom and library bookshelves.

Classroom 69

Classroom Libraries Groups Industry 69

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We’re living in the most costly, expensive times that I’ve lived through as superintendent,” said Gestson, who has been in that job since 2015. White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December.

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Laptops System Policies Meeting 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. Trump and Betsy DeVos are examples of why a free press is needed now more than ever. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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Report Advocacy Education Common Core 74

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For example, postgraduate earnings are now being gleaned from tax records, and graduates’ average debt, by program, from the government’s National Student Loan Data System. Offers of financial aid, for example, are notoriously confusing. Some observers complain that’s not enough.

Data 81

Data Policies Report Study 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia program caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation that lasted several years, and resulted in a 21-page letter of findings in July, 2015, and a lawsuit in August, 2016. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example. These schools represented one in 10 charters operating during the 2015-16 school year.

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Report Company Data Meeting 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. That’s one way it’s trying to increase the number of transfer students, for example — especially from its community colleges — accepted by both public and private universities.

Education 97

Education Policies Course System 97

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

And more importantly, to ascertain where some folks – those who issue press releases, for example – want the puck to head. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. We’re more likely to overlook the role that venture capital plays, for example.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. The CEO of Safari Books left the company “ amidst massive layoffs.” K12 Inc got a new CEO.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Protests at Evergreen College in Washington , for example. For its part, the Justice Department indicated that it would investigate what it deemed to be free speech violations on campuses – at Pierce College , for example, and at Georgia Gwinnett College. Again and again and again. Protests at Reed College in Oregon.

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Technology Education Social Media Groups 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Bootcamp or Bust.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “The founder and former CEO of an online public school that educates thousands of Pennsylvania students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal tax fraud, acknowledging he siphoned more than $8 million from The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School through for-profit and nonprofit companies he controlled.”

Education 40

Education Khan Academy MOOC Company 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. The standoff between the federal government and the states comes as DeVos has appointed several for-profit college industry executives to high-level positions overseeing their former companies and others.

Company 70

Company Industry Advocacy Report 70

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

So what happens when, for example, we share the research that demonstrates that vouchers do not improve student achievement ? That is, accepting science is not necessarily a function of education or scientific knowledge – parents who are anti-vaccine are often affluent and highly-educated, for example. Should you ban laptops ?

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40